Preschool Community

3 UP TO 5 YEARS OLD

Prepping Preschoolers for Lifelong Learning

Students should enter Primary School with a healthy curiosity, readiness skills, an eagerness to learn and abundant energy. The collage team fosters those attributes, engaging students in an active learning process in which teachers provide direct instruction as well as hands-on activities that promote critical thinking, problem-solving, cooperative learning and facilitation of child-driven inquiry. Instruction is differentiated – utilizing a blend of whole group, flexible small group and individual instruction – allowing students to develop skills at a pace that aligns with their individual levels and abilities.

Our low student-to-teacher ratio allows teachers to create personal relationships with students, identify their strengths and weakness and individualize instruction to appropriately challenge and support each of them. Teachers collaborate with Collage’s Director of Curriculum & Instruction to blend a variety of teaching approaches and curricular resources to continually support each learner’s whole-child development and mastery of academic goals. We engage the whole child to cultivate confidence, develop competency and encourage academic success. We strive to lead by example and inspire a passion for learning that lasts a lifetime.

Because we don’t believe students should spend their entire school day sitting in front of computers under artificial lights, the Collage team ensures our students have plentiful opportunities to move and use their bodies in healthy ways and to spend time outdoors in the natural environment. Our faculty and students make full use of the entire campus for classwork as well as enrichment opportunities in the visual and performing arts, physical education, laboratory experiences and hands-on learning in nature.

Teachers in our Primary School Community:

Encourage each child to develop at an individual pace and to his or her fullest potential

Help each child develop a sense of responsibility for one’s own actions as well as responsibility for and awareness of the surrounding community

Continue to develop each child’s sense of respect for others and for the environment

Nurture a love of learning, creativity and logical thinking

Teach each child skills that can be used throughout life

Work to integrate home and school through parent education and parent-teacher conferences

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About Us

As an academically challenging, independent day school, we work closely with your family to foster the growth of whole, well-rounded and happy children and to inspire an appreciation for the natural world.